{"id":48,"date":"2008-03-14T17:44:23","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T00:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/buenos-aires-until-next-time\/2008\/03\/14\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T17:46:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T00:46:08","slug":"buenos-aires-until-next-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/buenos-aires-until-next-time\/2008\/03\/14\/","title":{"rendered":"Buenos Aires &#8230; until next time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I&#8217;ve done 5 weeks of spanish lessons here and I have come to the conclusion that learning a foreign language is rather hard. If you&#8217;re a very social\/chatty person then I think you have a huge advantage at learning languages compared to a more introverted person.  Interacting is a big part of developing a language skill.  But I haven&#8217;t given up.  I&#8217;ve enjoyed my time here, and I am definitely trying to work out how to come back later in the year to continue learning spanish.<\/p>\n<p>\nIt&#8217;s difficult to put a finger on what the actual attraction of Buenos Aires is. Sure its a very big city with some interesting nightlife. Sure it has a very European feel about it. Sure its quite cheap compared to most western countries at the moment. Sure the people seem nice enough.  For now, all I know is that I want to come back. I probably need a good 3 months of spanish to make a decent go of it, and it&#8217;d just be rude to stop learning now.  I&#8217;ll take some lessons back in Auckland, but mainly so I don&#8217;t forget what I&#8217;ve learnt so far.<\/p>\n<p>Interesting things I will remember about this trip<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All the old cars around the city. Citroen 2CVs, and old Fiat 500s that are not collector cars here but seemingly daily transport.<\/li>\n<li>The atypical comedy shows on TV that seem to consist of two older guys cracking jokes and sometimes dressed in drag while  a few scantily dressed young women dance or perform some other distracting activity nearby.<\/li>\n<li> The impressive entrances to apartment buildings.<\/li>\n<li>All the bars on windows of apartments, houses and shops<\/li>\n<li>All the dogs with their professional &#8216;dog walkers&#8217; and dodging the dogshit on the footpaths<\/li>\n<li>The very tiny lifts in apartment buildings (3 people is the limit)<\/li>\n<li>How people take their time and aren&#8217;t that rushed. I have had some very long lunches here.<\/li>\n<li>Dulce de leche<\/li>\n<li>Soy milk in fruit juice (I won&#8217;t actually miss this at all)<\/li>\n<li>Lots of stuff is &#8216;made in Argentina&#8217;, which is so unlike NZ, Aus and lots of other countries where everything is &#8216;made in China&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>And of course the lovely teachers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spanishimmersion.com.ar\">the Spanish Way <\/a>(just in case they accidentally read this \ud83d\ude09 )<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So next week, I&#8217;m off to Europe and then Japan before returning back to Auckland.  This is mainly to visit friends and family so its a bit of a mad dash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so I&#8217;ve done 5 weeks of spanish lessons here and I have come to the conclusion that learning a foreign language is rather hard. If you&#8217;re a very social\/chatty person then I think you have a huge advantage at learning languages compared to a more introverted person. Interacting is a big part of developing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buenos-aires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}